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FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1926,

CHANGE OF POLICY IN CHINA.

FACTORS DRIVING POWERS TO NEW ATTITUDE,

SALT. TARIFF, MALTREAT- MENT.

THE CHINA MAIL.

folk at home see nothing but the bright side of China lest they demand action which would be unpleasant.

International agreement, partles to the iregularities, in that they the provincial arranged with authorities that if the system and personnel of the collectorate were Sir Ernest Wilton's annual re not interfered with, a part or the port upon the "administration of whole of the receipts would be the salt revenues this year "gave turned over to them. These pay-the investing public little reason ments out of revenues which to doubt that the Government in should have been remitted intact to the Central Government came to be known as subsidies and the payment of subsidies came to be ay much a part of the collector- ate's business as the service of loans.

Provincial Confiscations.

Yunnan first seized the local receipts in 1916. By 1918 Sze chuan and Kwangtung had to lowed Yunnan's pleasant

pre-

Peking was receiving from the Provinces remittances vastly in excess of the funds required for foreign loan services and reither Sun Yueh's attempt on the only remaining respectable source of revenue nor Ho Toh-lin's attempt to seize the surplus were permit bed to shake public confidence in the integrity of the service and the security of the loans on the foreign market.

LATE. MR. F. H. HOLYOAK.

IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL

CEREMONY:"

MANY H.K. PEOPLE PRESENT,

wood Church on Friday, May 26, of The funeral took place at Yardley

the Hon.

Mr. Percy Hobson Holyoak, who was well known to many Moseley residents, having married into one of the best known.

local families.

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The Hon. Mr. Holyoak dled in London, shortly after his arrival from the Far East, having return- od to England largely for the pur- pose of making a report to Mr. L. S. Amory, the Secretary for the

BREACH OF PROMISE.

almierowy.

SHOULD BE ABOLISHED?

The law still recognises actions for breach of promise of marriage, though a good many legal authorl- Abolishod. At times they open the ties would be glad to see them

doar to something akin to black- mail, and many a man who never promised marriage at all has paid

heavily "out of court" to avoid the humiliation of publicity.

But if the action does come into court the burden lles on the woman of proving that the man ever pro- mised to marry her. Her evidence. by itself will not be sufficient, how- ever romantic or tempestuous it may be. Her evidence must be car- roborated. That is to say, evidence from other sources must be produc- He was a member of the Execp-ed sufficient to satisfy the jury that

Mr.

Finally, many days after Ch'u Dominions, upon the political and cedent. In 1919 $28,000,000 of Yu-p'u had set up his own collec-commercial situation in China. the surplus released to the Gov-torate and announced that no Holyoak from his long and induon- ernment was actually released to more receipts would be remitted tial associations in China, the provincial chiefs by the for-to Peking, the British Foreign eminently fitted for this task. eign collectors who, under the Office Government was planning

WAS

The following article, written by Mr. Rodney Gilbert, is culled from the "N. C. Daily News":-

Peking, June 19. General Ch'u Yu-p'u, the Feng- tien Governor of Chihli, has prob- | ably done foreign interests in China and his own distructed people a tremendous service in setting up his own salt revenue collectorate at Tientsin and in seizing the salt taxes in the Ch'ang-Lu district. He has forc- ed upon the world a thorough exposé of the complete futility of the policy of "patient concilia- tion," because one has to review the history of the foreign super-protection of the Legations, were to confiscate the revenues in hand tive Legislative Council of Hong- the promise was made, even though vised Salt Collectorate very light supposed to be safeguarding the to pay salaries in the local minis-kong, chairman of the Hongkong Changtries. ly indeed to discover how Chinese service of foreign loans.

Chamber of Commerce, a director officialdom desponds to a policyTso-lin, in Manchuria, then fell in

of the Hongkong and Shanghal based upon good-natured indul line and took all the revenue. Wu

As compared with sentimen- Bank, chairman of the Union In- Paifa in Hupeh had to be heavi- For months past we have been subsidised." Then, in 1923. Dr.talists and Bolsheviks, financierssurance Co., the head of the firm

The best corroboration la to be feeling in Peking that a radical Sun Yat-sen's. administration in are poor propagandists, but in of Holyoak, Massey Co., Ltd., and change in the China policy of the Canton not only seized the re-this instance the Consortium director of many other limited com found in letters. Iurn on la titten

panfès in China. but went further and Banks in Peking were moved to

to her asking her to marry him, or He held the distinguished office referring to the little home and great Powers was not only inevit. ceipts

to their prin- able but imminent. Obstacles to usurped the functions of the col-cable messages

cipals which prompted some unhong and South China Freemasonry the wedding, the plaintiff's task le of District Grand Master of Hong-halcyon days they are to have after lectorate. such a change have been rapidly

For several years. past it has usual revelations in Parliament, removed, both here and abroad,

Mr. Holyoak married Miss Nellie

William Cowper, Moseley.

The funeral service was rend by the Archdeacon of Birmingham

The chief mourners were: Mrs.

genge

I

vendes

•

Action by the Banks.

Mr.

of

P. H. Holyoak (widow), Joyce and Dorothy Holyoak (daughters), Mise Mary Holyoak (sister). Mr. Charles Holyoak (cousin), Mr. and Mrs. J. Stert Cowper, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cowper (brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law), Mr. S. G. Cowper (nephew).

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they disregard everything that she

kas sald. This law about corro- boration was passed in 1889-a time when legislation was in masculine hands.

THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.

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an easy one, and probably only one

Quotations, from a series of letters are usually a sign of weakness. It means that counsel is trying to evolve corroboration from some- what, tenuous "material",

For, it should be noted, the evi- ! dence must show a promise to marry. Passionate avowals of de- votion-even sternal devotion-will not be sufficient without a reference to church bells or some other inti- mation "that their mutual affection is to be recognised as permanent There also followed Sir Newton] by Church or State.. Stabb (Hongkong and Shanghai Bot letters are not the only form Bank), Colonel and Mrs. A. Reiss of corroboration. An introduction (London). Captain A. Lamplugh of the woman na the man's fiances Union Assurance Co., Canton), Mr. to some third party, her reception J. Hanbury Williams (Manchester), Fat his parents' house Mr. Leask and Mr. Graham (repre-his future bride-even his senting the Freemasons of Hong kong), Mr. J. Bartholomew. (Hong- kong) Mr. and Mrs. T. Wallace Robinson, Mr. V. Hugo, and Mr.

and the Chinese militarists have been clearly understood that no-A few days before the Hukuang Gertrude Cowper, daughter of the letter will have to be read in court. I been demonstrating the need of it thing stocd between the Salt Col-payment was due, when it was in the most spectacular fashion lectorate and ruin but the in- obvious that General Ch'u meant "possible for the benefit of numer.tegrity of the collectorate in the to retain the Ch'ang-Lu revenues. ous highly placed and highly in-district in eastern Chihli known the various banks telegraphed to telligent special representatives as the Chang-Lu District, since their various principals suggest-Canon C. E. Hopton).

areas ing that if the Home Govern- of our several Governments, who the receipts from other are not restricted by the usual were so trifling that they would ments could not or would not see diplomatic version to creating not have paid the overhead of the that an international receivership for China was not only essentia! administration. difficult situations by sending the

When General Sun Yueh became but inevitable, they might at naked truth home. It has been Tupan of Chihlt at the end of least see the folly of letting their felt that some very small thing 1925 one of his first acts was the delegates to the Tariff Conference would crop up and be given an airing, which would force our un announcement that he intended to discuss an increase of China's re willing Governments to face the take all of the Chang-Lü salt re-venues while there was not only whole China question frankly and

for military purposes. no prospect of consolidating the honestly and would thereby force There was no good reason why unnsecured debt but also no hope a change of attitude towards this he should not. All the other mili- of maintaining the integrity of country which would lead, by tary chiefs had done it and no of those revenue services which virtue of the obdurate resistance one had suffered for it. In most were security for loans in which of the Chinese official classes to a Provinces in fact the foreign com- the public abroad reposed some

missioners were actually doing confidence,

messages curtailment of their looting and the collecting and book-keeping prompted questions in Parliament exploiting prerogatives, to 2 thorough and wholesome over-

for the Governors, working with to which Mr. G. Locker Lampson hauling of Occidental relations

them and for them in the most made the amazing reply that he with this unhappy country. In amicable fashion. Sun Yueh was had no reason to believe that the Peking we are inclined to think bluffed out of it, however, and at loan services were in danger.

the same time General Sun The irritation and astonish- now that Ch'u Yu Pu has touched Chuan-fang was persuaded toment that the report of this

make a

small monthly remit-statement aroused in Peking was tance from Nanking to Peking exceedingly. wholesome, for it while keeping the lion's share for elicited from China a veritable himself. So, for the time being, storm of cabled information and the service went on by the grace of two Tupans with no credit whatever due the Powers..

the match to the fuse.

the le

In

there are in all about 60 for-

"These

butes

Wilfred Harris:

There were about 100 floral tri- from relatives. friends, Masonic Lodges, and various pubile bodies with which the Hon. Mr. Holyoak, had been connected.

BOLSHEVISM.

70,000 CHINESE EXPELLED. ··

FROM HUNGARY..

According to a Budapest mes.

as Budapest's Chinese inhabitants

had hitherto been limited to about

silence when presented by her

to her friends as her husband-to-be would be corroboration, for such happenings are inexplicable save on the ground of an engagement.

There is, however, one form of silence which is not consent. If the woman has written lettore to the man saying that he has pro- mised to marry her and he does not answer them--that by itself is no corrobration of the story that he did so promise. If she is unable to adduce some "better evidence than that, the action will end in her discomfiture.-Inner Temple in the "Daily Mail."

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED.

5

IN THE MAIL."

Entertainmenta

July 9-Queen's Theatre; "Ka

Thro the Rye,"

July 9-Star Theatre: "Coming

a hundred souls. The detectives who were ordered to investigate. the matter made the sensational Me Again. dressed Chinese were living in discovery that 20,000 shabbily

hotels and lodgings in Budapest. travelling first-class in the trains. and, when arrested for street trading without a licence,, were usually found to have bums ap.

to forty July 10 Civil Service Cricket

The Collection in Salt Taxes. The salt taxes,

as everyone knows, are collected by a Govern. ment department of which the

comment which encouraged a Minister of Finance is ex-officio

great deal more discussion in: Chief Inspector and of which one

Parliament and the press than of the two Vice-Ministers of

General Ch'u's action would Finance is Co-Inspector with 4

A Close Shave in March.

normally have provoked. Most In March, when the reckless important of all, it brought from foreigner of ecual rank who acts Mr. Ho Teh-lin was Kuominchun the Under Secretary for Foreign as custodian of the service of for Minister of France, he made a Affairs the confession that on eign loans secured on

valiant effort to wreck the whole June 2 the Foreign Office was not sage of May 31, a few months venues of the department, the various salt producing areas he tried-to-ungent the Inspector-tic usurpation of the functions of was attracted by the number of collectorate. At the same time yet advised of General Ch'u's pub-ago the attention of the police in the provinces there are also General of Customs and was with the central foreign commissioners whose duty in an ace of laying his hands on which in turn inspired every been in the principal thorough- Salt Collectorate, Chinese street vendors to be it is to see that the local galt the reserve of $7,000,000 which banker and commercial represent fares and before the large hotels, taxes are properly collected, banked and remitted to Peking

the collectorate holds in the for-ative in North China to the without misappropriation by the sign banks. Again the loan ser- composition of lurid reviews of subordinate tax officers and with vices had a very close shave.

China's whole financial situation. out interference from the provin-

In the early part of May the As one banker remarked to an cial. military and civil officials.

Chang-Lu collections were con-appreciative audience: "I'm tell In Peking and the provinces eral Ch'u Yu-p'u, the new Tupan not put a dollar of my own in any spicuously large and when Gen- ing my principals that I would eigners of various nationalities of Chihli suddenly realised what Chinese, investment if it were employed whose specific business he was missing and decided not secured by a deposit of golden it is to safeguard the service of only to have all of the revenues guineas in the Bank of England, the various foreign loans secured but to put in his own collectorate unless I could get into the Bank on the salt taxes by seeing that lected something like $1,414,000 they were good. I'm telling them proximating thirty

as well, Peking had already col- and bite them to make sure that the, revenues collected are dy and had a reserve in the banks of that there is no such thing as a pounds on their persons and Club's open-air concert at the remitted to the specified custodian $7,000.000. Before the end of security for loans or investments Bolshevist literature in false Club's Ground, Happy Valley, 9 p.m. hanks and that they are not rethe. leased to the Chinese Government, Ch'a's collectorate was function- ing why.. I'm telling them fur- An influx of Chinese was also Pe Dansant at the Cafe Restaurant

month, however, General in this country, and I'm explain-compartments in their luggage.

July 10-Cread Opening Dinner least of all to a Provincial Gov-ing and the salt merchants had ther how important it is ernment, until all debt charges been officially notified that no-

that ported, from towns in the pro- Parisien, opposite Hongkong Hotel against the revenue have been

every poor devil who contem- vinces, and the number of Chinese main entrance, Pedder Street, 8 met in full Since this syatem of

thing more was to go to the plates putting his savings into in the whole country supervision is based upon an in-

Peking agents.

what are called Chinese securities covered to have risen. to seventy

was disr.m. ternational

On the 3rd of every June the should understand conditions thousand.-

July 19-Ching Yim-chow, lead- agreement with China, the Reorganisation Loan 950,000 into the banks which upon the discretion or the whims that these Asiatics were expelled Tai Ping Theatre.

ing protege of Mei-Lan-feng--wilt Salt--Administration pays 18 here so that he is not dependent Agreement of 1913, endorsed by serve the Hukuang Railway loans, of the diplomatic folk."

It has now been ascertained appear before local audiences at the the several Governments con- for the payment of semi-annual

from England, France, Italy, and

July 13, 19, 21-Brick Morse's cerned, the foreign custodians of the loan services are entitled to coupons. This payment, which as these has undoubtedly been re-shevist propagands and traffick Greatest College Entertainers will The prevalence of such feelings Germany, for circulating Bol California Collegians, the World's the support and protection of

to about $1,500,000; flected abroad and has prompted ing in white slaves, and ten thou- appear at the City Hall their Legations in such resistance current receipts, plus nearly a from General Ch'u when faced by from Hungary to Bukarest. Sofia was made this year out of the some little action, with reactions sand have already been exported

Sports. lakh from the reserve-the first a consular deputation in Tien- and Constantinople; the remain-pete in volleyball match at the July 10 Chinese girls will com- drain upon the last resources of tsin which will force upon all the der will shortly follow thom. the revenue service which is re- major Powers a frank and serious "China Express."

to interferences as may be re- quired to safeguard the integrity

of the service.

amounts

contemplation not only of the state of China's finances, but of the chronic official indifference to obligations of any sort.

(To be continued.]

KWANGTUNG CONSERVANCY

WORKS

Waterlevels (In English Feet) at 8 a.m.

8.3 +22.24

In the Early Days.

sponsible for at least four very From the very inauguration of important foreign loan services. this system such unexpectedly In just 10 years the receipta of large suins were remitted to Fek- the Peking collectorate which had Ing that a very small propotion seemed Buch remarkably fine of the receipts was required for security for foreign loans had the service of loans secured upon been reduced, through the con- this revenue. When interference sistent application of a foreign with the service commenced, policy of indulgence, compromise therefore, it was not taken very and patient conciliation, from

- July 6 July 7 I'm tired of carryin' the hod," West River at seriously. There was always more than 70 million dollars to said Cassidy as he rested a stack enough for the foreigner's nothing, for it happened that of bricks.

Shiuhing+ 36.1 NII "I want to push a North River at. legitimate claims and, for some General Sun Chuan-fang of Nan- barrer, like Flyan doen." years, quite a respectable annual king had alsg stopped his trifling You push a barrer!" exclaimed North River at

Tsingyuen + 8.4 surplus for the Central Govern remittances on the ground that his friend Flanigan scornfully, ment So while irregular reten-there was no Government in Pek-"Phwat the dickens d'you know East River

Samahu 21.8 tion of funds in the provinces was ing to receive funds.

about machinery ?" " the subject of formal protest In

Sheklung "In China this came as no sur- each instance, it was easfer and prise whatever. The end was pleasanter for everyone to let long in sight and was inevitable. such cases slide than to make a But in the Occident a revelation disagreeable fuss about moneys of the true state of things with

A SOOTHING BALM. which were not needed for the the salt revenues seems to have DISORDERS at the bowels are ex- NOR soreness of the muscles after loan services. -

Violent rrise and for rheumatic one as a distinct surprise since during the hot weather of the immer Not only were provincial not even the British Foreign mostas and in order to protect your

pains, much teller le fonded by maussying the affected parta thorough, seizures of salt funds condoned Ogice, much less the general yub-self and family waist suddenly with Chamberlain's Pain Balm but the foreign commissioners in Ile, had been prepared for it in tack, get bottle of Chamberlain when you have need of such the Provinces were in all the keeping with the time honours Colic and Diaries Barbedy It can preparation and see for yoursele what early cases of violation of the diplomatic practice of letting the wh

bedepended upon For Ovaria

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HOT WEATHER DISEASES

tremely" dangerous, “particularly

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July 9-World Theatre; "Fools First.".

July 9-Open air show at Lee

Garden. 9.15 p.m.

1

Chinese Y.M.C.A., Bridges Street,

at 4:30 pm.

July 10-Motor Cycle Gymkhana at Sookumpoo Football ground at 245 p.m.

August 4-Meeting of creditors of the Oriental. Commercial. Bank, Ltd., at 25, Des Voeux Road, Central, 3 p.m.

Auction

July 25 Valuable leasehold-pro-- perties at No. 16 and 16 Mui Fong, St., will be sold by Mr. A. G. da Rocha, auctioneer, at 8 p.m.

Meetings

July 10-Meeting of creditors, of the Hlag Wab Paste Mfg. Co., at the offices of Messra. Johnson, Stokes & Master, Prince Building, Ice House Street, 2 p.m.VM

Jaly 20Anneal meeting of the Hongkeng Taxfoab Co.

July 22 Twenty-ninthanpual meeting of the China Provident, Loan & Mortgage Co. Ltd., St. George's Building, 11.80 a.m.

August 6-Band night at Volun- trer Headquarters, D.m

August 9General meeting of Luen Mow 6.8. Don Lid, 88, Com naught Road, Central 2 pm

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